| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-28 | Mount Prospect | Il | Rauland | Lumbar region | Overexertion involving outside sources |
| An employee was loading boxes weighing 20-40 pounds into a cart to replenish supplies for a pad printing machine when they felt a pop in their lower back. The employee was hospitalized for a lower back injury. | |||||
| 2021-07-19 | Mount Prospect | Il | Banfield Pet Hospital | Hand(s) | Other animal bites, nonvenomous |
| An employee was bitten on the right hand by a dog while checking in the dog for an exam. The employee required surgery and hospitalization. | |||||
| 2021-06-02 | Prospect | Ct | Oxford General Industries Inc | Head | Struck by object or equipment |
| An employee was operating a milling machine and pressure-testing finished parts. As the employee tested a part, an upper piece of the test fixture separated and struck the employee's head causing a laceration. | |||||
| 2021-02-03 | Mount Prospect | Il | Parenti & Raffaelli Ltd | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
| On February 3, 2021, an employee was operating a panel saw and suffered an amputation injury to a finger. | |||||
| 2020-04-20 | Mount Prospect | Illinois | NEW USN CHICAGO, LLC dba Soluble Packaging Solutions | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to clear an equipment jam when his right index finger was caught between the equipment's roller and drum, resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||
| 2019-01-03 | Mount Prospect | Illinois | Multi-Pack Chicago LLC dba Multi-Pack Packing Solutions | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was attempting to clear scrap from a cavity on a machine's rotating drum. When he extended his arm and tried to clear the scrap, the drum pulled his left index finger into a pinch point between the drum and a form roller. As he pulled his finger away from the pinch point, the nail and a small portion of skin were removed (de-gloved) from his fingertip, exposing a small portion of bone and resulting in an amputation. The machine was guarded at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2017-05-26 | Prospect | Oregon | Forest Service, Bend Pine Administration Site | Arm(s) | Climbing or stepping up or down-repetitive or prolonged |
| An employee had been climbing trees for three days when both of his arms became rigid and tense. He was hospitalized with a muscle injury. | |||||
| 2017-04-21 | Mount Prospect | Illinois | DOCK & DOOR NATIONAL LLC | Tooth (teeth) | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
| Two employees were approximately 15 feet up in a scissor lift working on the motor for the overhead dock door at a customer's site. The overhead door activated and knocked the scissor lift over, causing one employee to fall out of the basket. One employee damaged his jaw, lost teeth, sustained rib injuries and potentially broke a leg. The second employee fractured a wrist. Both were hospitalized. | |||||
| 2016-06-21 | Prospect Heights | Illinois | Peterson Roofing, Inc. | Multiple trunk locations | Other fall to lower level |
| On or about June 21, 2016, an employee was at a customer's residence to provide an estimate for a chimney repair. As the employee was climbing the ladder, he lost his balance and fell, injuring his back and ribs. | |||||
| 2016-04-03 | Mount Prospect | Illinois | Club Demonstration Services, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was cleaning a food cart in the back storage part of the store. A forklift operator on the other side of the storage rack was pushing a skid with a cooler but pushed it too far, causing a pallet (weighing approximately 100 pounds) on the other side of the rack to fall on the employee cleaning her cart. She was hospitalized with injuries to her mouth, chest, legs, and feet. | |||||